Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering have found that with an emissions-based incentive towards electrification, ridesourcing companies such as Uber and Lyft would electrify more and cut their emissions by amounts ranging from 10% in New York to 22% in Los Angeles. —Bruchon et al. Bruchon, Jeremy J. 0c05141.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2019

As a result of policies and investments from the Energy Commission and Air Resources Board, the State of California has helped zero-emission hydrogen vehicles get an early boost. —Joel Ewanick, Founder & CEO of FirstElement Fuel Inc. —California Energy Commission Vice Chair, Janea A.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2016

AB 32 requires the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to convene an environmental justice advisory committee to advise it in developing the Scoping Plan and any other pertinent matter in implementing AB 32. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32); Stats.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2017

A study by the University of California, Riverside College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) found that a Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Agency (Metro) bus equipped with an ultra-low emission natural gas engine performs significantly cleaner than its certification standards across all duty cycles.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

As a former top corporate subject matter expert, I took a very deep made myself a environmental resource for others in my reincarnation as The Creative Greenius and author of this blog. The first Bolt displayed at the annual National Drive Electric Event in 2016 in Los Angeles. But I needed to see and feel the car for myself.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2012

The study makes uses new simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Five, to be assessed in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report Five (AR 5) due out next fall, to estimate seasonal changes in precipitation, evaporation, water runoff and soil moisture in the near future, 2021-2040.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

President Obama today established a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience to advise the Administration on how the Federal Government can respond to the needs of communities nationwide that are dealing with the impacts of climate change. Executive Order.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2012

The program, created by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007), provides approximately $100 million annually to encourage the development and use of new vehicle technologies and alternative and renewable fuels to help attain the state's climate change policies. Earlier post.) Electricore Inc.,

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 16, 2015

With epic smog in the Los Angeles Basin, the state of California has led the nation''s charge to reduce emissions from road vehicles for more than half a century. And it is now state policy to reduce emissions of climate-change gases, primarily carbon dioxide, from its 30 million-plus road vehicles by a whopping 80 percent by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

In addition to the changes he observed in local air pollutants, Jacobson found that there was increased stability of the air column over a city, which slowed the dispersal of pollutants, further adding to the increased pollutant concentrations. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. his study contradicts that assumption.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

An aerial methane survey conducted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), California Energy Commission (CEC) and NASA has found that just 10% of the point sources were responsible for 60% of the total methane emissions detected. Los Angeles and Ventura Counties were next on the list. Duren, R.M., Thorpe, A.K.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The governing boards of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach unanimously approved the 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update , ushering in a new era of aggressive clean air strategies for moving cargo through the nation’s busiest container port complex.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 7, 2019

This effort eventually led to the formation of the Los Angeles County Clean Power Alliance. A leader with South Bay 350, Joe formed South Bay Clean Power and created awareness of and enthusiasm for the process known as Community Choice Aggregation. He was successful in bringing a number of cities to work together.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

We’ve always planned on retiring and spending the rest of our lives right here, but these days we’re worried about what climate change is already doing – and about the far more serious consequences headed our way. We’re already getting used to the fires, smoke and related air hazards here in the L.A.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Although viewed as a potential target in the global effort to reduce climate change, atmospheric black carbon particles absorb significantly less sunlight than scientists have predicted, according to a new study by an international team of researchers, published in the journal Science. Earlier post.). —Timothy Onasch.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 31, 2009

Last Thursday afternoon your Creative Greenius took yet another step on my journey to employ my professional skills, talents and resources for greater green good and not just to line my own pockets. I bring a passion that’s driven by my sense of urgency over our climate change crisis. County Solar Map.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The South Bay region I live and work in covers an area of 161 square miles and encompasses 15 cities plus portions of the City of Los Angeles and unincorporated portions of the County of Los Angeles. But, it’s not Heidi Aten’s job to be the that leader.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 2, 2008

The law passed back in July of this year, but none of the money is flowing yet to anyone in my city of Torrance or my county of Los Angeles. After I wrote a letter to Don Knabe’s office, my county supervisor, I got a phone call from Howard Choy in the Energy Management Division for Los Angeles County.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2009

In an opinion published this week in the Los Angeles Times , oceanography research scientist William Patzert of Jet Propulsion Laboratories and Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District (LA-MWD) Chairman of the Board Timothy E. The governor’s office projects the overall loss of statewide economic activity at US $3 billion.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. General Motors’ Impact debuted at the 1990 Los Angeles Auto Show.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2009

The study found that CO 2 domes increase air pollution deaths by 50-100 per year in California, with most occurring in Los Angeles. Tags: Black carbon Climate Change Emissions Policy. As such, reducing locally-emitted CO 2 reduces local air pollution deaths even if CO 2 in adjacent regions is not controlled.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 13, 2021

The Model 3 owner ultimately opted to try his hand at another test in the LA DMV, especially since Teslas are extremely common in Los Angeles. Los Angeles-based Drivers Ed Direct currently operates an all-electrified fleet of cars for its students. Credit: Tesla Inc. Insights from CA’s Clean Air Protectors.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

An international study of 10 global cities found that a balance of geophysical factors (climate, access to resources, and gateway status) and technical factors (power generation, urban design, and waste processing) determine the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) attributable to cities. Tonnes CO 2 e/capita. Credit: ACS, Kennedy et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has released the public discussion draft of the required update to the AB 32 Scoping Plan. The Scoping Plan describes the comprehensive range of efforts California must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and meet the state’s long-term goals to combat climate change.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Helping people adopt a lifestyle that sustains, rather than depletes, Earth’s natural resources. When I talked with Lillian she said, “Sure,&# she’d do an interview with me and then asked if I was going to the climate change communications workshop at UCLA that Wednesday. Kathleen Jacecko.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

For the current fiscal year, the program is slated to invest approximately $90 million to encourage the development and use of new technologies, and alternative and renewable fuels, to help the state meet its climate-change goals. Expanding hydrogen fueling stations in California. Linde, LLC, will receive $4.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

Funding priorities through the ARFVT Program support fuel and vehicle development to help attain the state’s climate change policies. 5 million for light-duty plug-in electric vehicle rebates to meet high demand for the Clean Vehicle Rebate Program, administered by the California Air Resources Board. $5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Organic aerosol (OA) in the atmosphere is detrimental to human health and represents a highly uncertain forcing of climate change. The California Air Resources Board and the US Environmental Protection Agency helped support this research. Similar to Los Angeles, OA concentrations and ?OA/? —Gentner et al.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 28, 2019

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective.

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MARCH 11, 2019

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition.

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